Fabric Basic Question Part - 01

1. What is the fabric?

Answer: Fabric is cloth or cloth-like material produced by the process of knitting or weaving together with different thread according to a suitable structure or design.

2. What is knitting?

Answer: The process of producing fabric by transferring continuous yarns into interlocking loops, each row of loop hanging from the one immediately preceding it.

3. How many sets of yarn is required in knitting?

Answer: One set of yarn is required. Either warp or weft yarn is used to produce fabric in knitting.

4. What is weaving?

Answer: The process of producing fabric by interlacing two sets of yarns namely warp and weft at a right angle is known as weaving.

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5. How many sets of yarn is required in weaving?

Answer: Two sets of yarn is required. Both warp and weft yarn is used to produce fabric in weaving.

6. What are the types of knitting?

Answer:  Two types of knitting-

• Weft knitting
• Warp knitting

7. What is warp yarn?

Answer: The yarn which is used in length direction to produce fabric in the weaving process is called as a warp yarn.

8. What is the weft yarn?

Answer: The yarn which is used in width direction to produce fabric in the weaving process is called as weft yarn.

9. What is wale? 

Answer: The wale is a horizontal row of the needle loops in the knitted fabric.

10. What is coarse?

Answer: The coarse is a vertical column of the needle loops in the knitted fabric.

11. What is the needle?

Answer: A needle is generally a thin, cylindrical object, often with a sharp point on the end which specially used in the knitting machine.

12. What is the pitch?

Answer: The pitch is the distance from one needle to another needle.

13. What is a needle loop?

Answer: The needle loop is mainly the basic structure of the knitted fabric.

14. What is Face loop?

Answer: A face loop is a loop where hanks are staying above and heads are stying below.

15. What is Back loop?

Answer: A face loop is a loop where heads are staying above and hanks are stying below.

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